Idaho executor fees

Idaho’s fee review provision has not been amended since 1971

Idaho Code § 15-3-719 entitles a personal representative to reasonable compensation for services, with the uniform renunciation rules attached. No Idaho percentage schedule exists and the code sets no factors for measuring what is reasonable.

The review provision, § 15-3-721, lets the court examine the propriety of employing any person by the representative — the statute names attorneys, auditors, investment advisors and other specialised agents or assistants — the reasonableness of their compensation, and the reasonableness of the compensation the representative determined for their own services. Review follows notice to all interested persons, or a petition by an interested person, or an appropriate motion where administration is supervised. Anyone who has received excessive compensation may be ordered to make appropriate refunds.

Its history line is short enough to quote in full: “I.C., sec. 15-3-721, as added by 1971, ch. 111, sec. 1, p. 233.” Idaho enacted the uniform review provision when it adopted the Uniform Probate Code and has left it alone since. Nebraska, by contrast, amended its equivalent in 1980 to add seven statutory factors, and Minnesota added three in 1979. Idaho’s silence is the deliberate result of not legislating further, not an oversight, and it puts the whole of the reasonableness question in the hands of the court hearing the accounting.

Source: Idaho Code §§ 15-3-719, 15-3-721, read from the enacting state’s own published code on 2026-09-17. Quoted wording is the statute’s; the surrounding explanation is this site’s reading of it and is not legal advice.